by Kevin Wolf Checkups Shots and Robots – True Stories Behind How Doctors Treat Us by David Rickert is an excellent book for middle schoolers with health care topics and stories fitting the age group with a few caveats. Checkups provides interesting historically significant medical discoveries, biographies of important characters, explanations of disease causes, treatments (e.g., vaccines), technological advances from ancient times into the future with the latter under the heading “What’s Next.” The book is broken into five medical overarching topics (“The Well Visit,” “Diseases and Infections,” “Vaccines,” “Pain Relief,” and “Surgery”) of two to four chapters each. And… Read More